Alexandru Grigoras

Experience

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Currently leading all Backup feature planning and development for Teams users and building new data loss prevention and recovery tools (TypeScript, Python, React)

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Greatly improved team execution velocity by redefining and optimizing team processes and devising an engineering-led feature validation framework which enabled the team to deliver new experiments nearly twice as fast

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Led all front end planning and development for Dropbox Backup, effectively delivering a highly-polished product which increased customer satisfaction by over 10% (TypeScript, Python, React, Electron, Protobuf)

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Coordinated UX development for the computer backup architecture overhaul that resulted in a 35% increase in user activation rate

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Built an advanced project management tool with a collaborative editor integration and complex interactive kanban, calendar, and GANTT timeline views (TypeScript, React, Redux, Paper, RTL)

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Developed a custom realtime sync system for task management, with data persistence and an innovative API queueing mechanism

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Optimized the development process of the team’s marketing website serving 200,000 monthly users by migrating it from a legacy framework to an internal CMS, significantly reducing long-term engineering costs and enabling other teams at Uber to leverage this work to achieve the same benefits (Node.js, React, Redux, Jest)

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Increased customer satisfaction and successful enrollment rates while safeguarding users' privacy by launching a highly sensitive feature that enabled 8% of new customers to discover the company accounts they were already associated with instead of accidentally creating duplicate accounts (Node.js, React, Redux, Golang)

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Decreased the number of failed E2E tests by 40% and reduced the average time to detection by 50% by proactively auditing and addressing the underlying defects in the integration testing framework (Jenkins, Puppeteer)

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Improved customer support efficiency for over 90% of the hundreds of thousands of tickets surfaced daily by creating the backend of Uber's machine learning-based ticket assistant (Golang)

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Reduced support ticket resolution time by 10% while delivering service with similar or higher levels of customer satisfaction

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Co-founded a public benefit software startup that offered a "Humans of New York"-style photo-sharing platform for 13,000 users in 133 countries (JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Android)

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Designed the entire architecture of the product and undertook all the engineering and UI/UX development efforts behind the PHP backend, native Android and hybrid iOS apps, and fully responsive web client

Education

GPA: 3.97 (Summa Cum Laude) – Double Majored in Interactive Media Arts – Minored in Social Science

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Received the Senior Award in Engineering and Computer Science (given to the top Eng/CS student in the graduating class)

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Earned a full-tuition NYU Futures Global Scholarship and the NYU Shanghai Recognition Award all four years of university for outstanding academic performance

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Developed a proof-of-concept AI virtual assistant for my senior thesis, capable of automating user workflows by learning new skills directly from the end user via natural language processing (Android, Accessibility Services)